Replication materials for:

Thrall, Calvin. Public-Private Governance Initiatives and Corporate Responses to Stakeholder Complaints. International Organization.


The replication materials consist of four data files and one R script that reads in each of the data files and reproduces all figures, tables, and statistics from the paper (as well as the supplementary appendix). As long as each of the data files is in your working directory, the only step necessary to replicate the results in the paper is to run the R script. Below, I briefly describe each of the files:


R script

1. ungc_replication_script.R

This script reads in each of the data files and applies the functions necessary to produce all results and figures from the paper and the supplementary appendix. Note that I use several R packages that need to be downloaded from CRAN. The script will automatically check whether you already have each package installed; if so it will load it, if not it will install it and then load it. I include the R version that I was running when I created this script, as well as the version of each of the packages that I used. It is not required that you use the same versions as I did, but certain functions may not work as intended (or at all) if you are using a much older version. 

Data files

1. ungc_rep_data.csv

This file contains the primary dataset used in the paper: the full sample of claims levied against Forbes Global 2000 firms, along with all covariates. This data is used to produce all of the results in the paper, and all of the results in the appendix except for the models with the MSCI ESG rating control. A subset of this data (claims made against 4 or more firms) is used to produce the multi-firm claim results. Variable names are intuitive (in my opinion), and descriptions for each one can be found in the paper.

2. msci_model_data.csv

This file contains the data necessary to reproduce the appendix models that contain the MSCI ESG rating control variable.

3. figure3_data.csv

This file contains the data necessary to reproduce Figure 3. It is a 19-year panel (2000-2018) for each of the Forbes Global 2000 firms: variables include Company (name of company), Country (home state of company), Year, and ungc_member (a dummy variable indicating whether the firm was a UNGC member in that year).

4. ungcmemberdata.csv

This file contains the data necessary to reproduce Figure 1. It contains data on all UNGC member firms as well as the year that they joined the UNGC.



If you have any questions about the replication materials, or the paper more generally, please do not hesitate to send me an e-mail at cthrall@utexas.edu. 

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